Relational Database
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Relational Database skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Relational Database over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 194 178 92
Rank change year-on-year -16 -86 +48
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 1,516 2,152 5,721
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.54% 2.07% 3.66%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.35% 9.72% 13.13%
Number of salaries quoted 915 1,407 2,265
10th Percentile £36,120 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £72,500 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Relational Database is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 18,159 22,148 43,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.41% 21.34% 27.85%
Number of salaries quoted 12,577 13,812 21,421
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,725 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £76,250 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.78%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Relational Database as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Relational Database in the UK

Relational Database
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Relational Database.

Salary trend for Relational Database in the UK

Relational Database
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Relational Database over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Relational Database in the UK

Relational Database
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Relational Database within the UK over the 6 months to 3 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -25 1,224 £60,000 -11.11% 255
UK excluding London +18 1,057 £52,500 -4.55% 157
Work from Home -12 683 £57,500 -8.00% 143
London -49 408 £68,750 -11.29% 121
South East +62 300 £55,000 -4.35% 36
North of England +38 255 £55,000 - 36
Scotland +4 174 £55,000 +9.48% 27
North West +54 171 £55,000 +5.77% 19
South West -41 114 £49,250 -10.45% 16
Midlands -20 110 £52,500 - 27
Yorkshire +22 75 £52,500 -19.23% 16
West Midlands -14 75 £55,000 +4.76% 15
East of England +5 56 £48,500 -32.64% 14
East Midlands -9 35 £50,000 -13.04% 12
Wales +4 31 £36,476 -18.94% 4
Northern Ireland -17 17 £34,628 -30.75% 3
North East -15 9 £71,500 +49.98% 1

Relational Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 58 (3.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 48 (3.17%) WebLogic
3 35 (2.31%) SharePoint
4 31 (2.04%) Apache Spark
4 31 (2.04%) IIS
5 29 (1.91%) OpenStack
6 28 (1.85%) Confluence
7 27 (1.78%) Apache
8 18 (1.19%) SAS
9 14 (0.92%) ArcGIS
10 10 (0.66%) JBoss
10 10 (0.66%) nginx
10 10 (0.66%) Red Hat Fuse
11 9 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
11 9 (0.59%) Umbraco
12 6 (0.40%) CMS
12 6 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
12 6 (0.40%) WordPress
13 3 (0.20%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.20%) WildFly
Applications
1 50 (3.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (2.64%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.46%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.40%) Trello
5 4 (0.26%) SPSS
6 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.20%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.13%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 46 (3.03%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 44 (2.90%) Endur
3 8 (0.53%) Elite 3E
3 8 (0.53%) NEC Housing
3 8 (0.53%) OpenLink RightAngle
3 8 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
4 7 (0.46%) Aladdin
4 7 (0.46%) thinkFolio
5 6 (0.40%) Oracle Applications
6 4 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
7 3 (0.20%) Raiser’s Edge
8 2 (0.13%) Adaptiv
8 2 (0.13%) Infor SunSystems
8 2 (0.13%) MIS ActiveH
8 2 (0.13%) Relativity
8 2 (0.13%) Veritas eDiscovery
9 1 (0.066%) Data Workbench
9 1 (0.066%) Dynamics AX
9 1 (0.066%) Oracle FAH
9 1 (0.066%) Ringtail
Cloud Services
1 513 (33.84%) Azure
2 467 (30.80%) AWS
3 253 (16.69%) Serverless
4 187 (12.34%) Azure DevOps
5 138 (9.10%) Power Platform
6 136 (8.97%) IBM Cloud
7 134 (8.84%) Azure Functions
8 131 (8.64%) Azure Service Bus
9 130 (8.58%) Azure Logic Apps
10 125 (8.25%) Azure API Management
11 102 (6.73%) GCP
12 100 (6.60%) Amazon EKS
13 69 (4.55%) SaaS
14 65 (4.29%) Amazon S3
15 60 (3.96%) Amazon ECS
16 57 (3.76%) Amazon SQS
17 40 (2.64%) Amazon EC2
18 36 (2.37%) AWS Lambda
19 33 (2.18%) Amazon Kinesis
20 31 (2.04%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 67 (4.42%) TCP/IP
2 56 (3.69%) DNS
3 51 (3.36%) SSL
4 46 (3.03%) BGP
5 18 (1.19%) Internet
5 18 (1.19%) SSH
6 13 (0.86%) SNMP
7 12 (0.79%) AMQP
8 11 (0.73%) Network Security
9 10 (0.66%) HTTP
10 8 (0.53%) Firewall
11 6 (0.40%) Wireshark
12 4 (0.26%) Ethernet
12 4 (0.26%) SMTP
12 4 (0.26%) Wireless
13 3 (0.20%) Broadband
13 3 (0.20%) FTP
13 3 (0.20%) LAN
13 3 (0.20%) NaaS
13 3 (0.20%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 432 (28.50%) SQL Server
2 363 (23.94%) RDBMS
3 301 (19.85%) NoSQL
4 284 (18.73%) PostgreSQL
5 264 (17.41%) MySQL
6 216 (14.25%) MongoDB
7 156 (10.29%) DB2
8 135 (8.91%) Power BI
9 130 (8.58%) Data Warehouse
10 102 (6.73%) Amazon RDS
11 100 (6.60%) Oracle Database
12 59 (3.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 49 (3.23%) Big Data
14 46 (3.03%) Data Lake
15 44 (2.90%) Elasticsearch
16 41 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
16 41 (2.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 31 (2.04%) Tableau
18 30 (1.98%) Looker
19 28 (1.85%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 251 (16.56%) Git
2 108 (7.12%) Jenkins
3 63 (4.16%) JIRA
4 47 (3.10%) JUnit
5 37 (2.44%) Visual Studio
6 36 (2.37%) JDeveloper
7 35 (2.31%) Postman
8 28 (1.85%) Selenium
9 26 (1.72%) Maven
10 23 (1.52%) Eclipse
10 23 (1.52%) GitLab
11 17 (1.12%) Oracle Forms
12 15 (0.99%) WebDriver
13 14 (0.92%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 13 (0.86%) Mockito
15 11 (0.73%) NUnit
16 10 (0.66%) Bitbucket
16 10 (0.66%) Cypress.io
16 10 (0.66%) MSTest
17 9 (0.59%) Jasmine
General
1 389 (25.66%) Social Skills
2 275 (18.14%) Finance
3 227 (14.97%) Public Sector
4 211 (13.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 180 (11.87%) Analytical Skills
6 166 (10.95%) Law
7 162 (10.69%) Marketing
8 79 (5.21%) Legal
9 61 (4.02%) Retail
10 59 (3.89%) Games
11 52 (3.43%) Banking
12 24 (1.58%) Local Government
13 22 (1.45%) Manufacturing
14 18 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
15 17 (1.12%) Investment Banking
15 17 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
16 15 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
16 15 (0.99%) Publishing
17 13 (0.86%) Automotive
17 13 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 587 (38.72%) Developer
2 252 (16.62%) Senior
3 217 (14.31%) Software Engineer
4 208 (13.72%) Lead
5 201 (13.26%) Full Stack Developer
6 144 (9.50%) Architect
7 132 (8.71%) Azure Developer
8 112 (7.39%) Senior Developer
9 93 (6.13%) Analyst
10 85 (5.61%) Solutions Architect
11 84 (5.54%) Java Developer
12 78 (5.15%) Data Engineer
13 71 (4.68%) Software Developer
14 69 (4.55%) Lead Architect
15 65 (4.29%) Lead Solutions Architect
16 62 (4.09%) DBA
17 58 (3.83%) Java Engineer
18 54 (3.56%) Java Software Engineer
19 47 (3.10%) Full Stack Engineer
20 42 (2.77%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 357 (23.55%) .NET
2 355 (23.42%) React
3 348 (22.96%) HTML
4 333 (21.97%) CSS
5 325 (21.44%) AngularJS
6 300 (19.79%) Node.js
7 277 (18.27%) REST
8 268 (17.68%) Web Services
9 226 (14.91%) Spring
10 204 (13.46%) Spring Boot
11 193 (12.73%) ASP.NET
12 192 (12.66%) jQuery
13 177 (11.68%) Vue
14 159 (10.49%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 142 (9.37%) JSON
16 137 (9.04%) ASP.NET Core
17 125 (8.25%) Backbone.js
17 125 (8.25%) Ember.js
18 118 (7.78%) RESTful
19 104 (6.86%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 228 (15.04%) Algorithms
2 210 (13.85%) Data Structures
3 137 (9.04%) Hybrid Cloud
4 136 (8.97%) Blockchain
5 129 (8.51%) Management Information System
6 112 (7.39%) Public Cloud
7 107 (7.06%) Cloud Native
8 77 (5.08%) Enterprise Software
9 60 (3.96%) Distributed Systems
10 47 (3.10%) Product Ownership
11 46 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
12 44 (2.90%) Swaptions
13 42 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
14 35 (2.31%) Onboarding
15 22 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
16 21 (1.39%) CMDB
16 21 (1.39%) Virtual Team
17 19 (1.25%) Hedge funds
17 19 (1.25%) Mainframe
18 16 (1.06%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 289 (19.06%) Linux
2 246 (16.23%) Windows
3 129 (8.51%) Android
3 129 (8.51%) Apple iOS
4 51 (3.36%) Unix
5 46 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (1.19%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.40%) Embedded Linux
8 4 (0.26%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.20%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.20%) Solaris
10 2 (0.13%) CentOS
10 2 (0.13%) Debian
11 1 (0.066%) AIX
11 1 (0.066%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.066%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.066%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 513 (33.84%) Agile
2 430 (28.36%) DevOps
3 364 (24.01%) Software Engineering
4 349 (23.02%) Problem-Solving
5 348 (22.96%) Full Stack Development
6 308 (20.32%) SDLC
7 303 (19.99%) Design Patterns
8 259 (17.08%) Artificial Intelligence
9 257 (16.95%) CI/CD
10 244 (16.09%) OO
11 243 (16.03%) Microservices
12 217 (14.31%) Data Modelling
13 201 (13.26%) OOP
14 192 (12.66%) Business Intelligence
15 190 (12.53%) Computer Science
15 190 (12.53%) Web Development
16 188 (12.40%) MVC
17 160 (10.55%) User Experience
18 154 (10.16%) Analytics
19 151 (9.96%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 819 (54.02%) SQL
2 633 (41.75%) Java
3 499 (32.92%) JavaScript
4 448 (29.55%) Python
5 383 (25.26%) C#
6 129 (8.51%) T-SQL
7 94 (6.20%) Go
8 90 (5.94%) PHP
9 81 (5.34%) TypeScript
10 69 (4.55%) Perl
11 61 (4.02%) Bash
12 51 (3.36%) VB
13 48 (3.17%) Ruby
14 46 (3.03%) PowerShell
15 40 (2.64%) Scala
16 29 (1.91%) C
17 27 (1.78%) Shell Script
18 21 (1.39%) C++
19 19 (1.25%) COBOL
20 18 (1.19%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 290 (19.13%) Degree
2 188 (12.40%) Security Cleared
3 155 (10.22%) SC Cleared
4 116 (7.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 68 (4.49%) Azure Certification
6 63 (4.16%) AWS Certification
7 46 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 40 (2.64%) Master's Degree
9 29 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
10 27 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
11 19 (1.25%) CTC Cleared
12 9 (0.59%) PMI Certification
13 8 (0.53%) Numerate Degree
14 7 (0.46%) HND
15 6 (0.40%) IIBA
16 5 (0.33%) HNC
16 5 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
17 4 (0.26%) DV Cleared
18 3 (0.20%) DBS Check
18 3 (0.20%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (7.59%) QA
2 41 (2.70%) Data Quality
3 28 (1.85%) GDPR
4 27 (1.78%) Accessibility
5 20 (1.32%) PMO
6 15 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (0.79%) HIPAA
8 10 (0.66%) SLA
9 7 (0.46%) CDISC
10 6 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (0.40%) JTAG
10 6 (0.40%) SOC 1
11 5 (0.33%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 3 (0.20%) GRC
14 2 (0.13%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
15 1 (0.066%) COREP
15 1 (0.066%) IFRS
15 1 (0.066%) NIST
System Software
1 204 (13.46%) Docker
2 31 (2.04%) Active Directory
3 18 (1.19%) Hyper-V
4 7 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.40%) Firmware
6 5 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.13%) vSphere
8 1 (0.066%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.066%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 173 (11.41%) Kubernetes
2 115 (7.59%) Terraform
3 51 (3.36%) Ansible
4 45 (2.97%) Grafana
5 38 (2.51%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.86%) WMI
7 6 (0.40%) Docker Swarm
7 6 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.33%) logstash
8 5 (0.33%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.26%) Data Guard
9 4 (0.26%) Kibana
10 3 (0.20%) Podman
11 2 (0.13%) Control-M
11 2 (0.13%) cPanel
11 2 (0.13%) Puppet
12 1 (0.066%) Hadoop YARN
12 1 (0.066%) Packer
12 1 (0.066%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 363 (23.94%) Oracle
2 281 (18.54%) Microsoft
3 171 (11.28%) IBM
4 136 (8.97%) Red Hat
5 91 (6.00%) Google
6 56 (3.69%) Sybase
7 50 (3.30%) Splunk
8 47 (3.10%) Dynatrace
9 46 (3.03%) Sparx
10 44 (2.90%) OpenLink
10 44 (2.90%) TIBCO
11 29 (1.91%) Atlassian
11 29 (1.91%) WSO2
12 26 (1.72%) Databricks
13 25 (1.65%) VMware
14 19 (1.25%) Unisys
15 15 (0.99%) Civica
15 15 (0.99%) Salesforce
16 14 (0.92%) Cognos
17 12 (0.79%) ESRI